A better and stronger spiritual successor to BZip2. - iczelia/bzip3

Initial effects of the technology on employment look positive

Pro soccer team's CTO points to "issues with the Broadcom takeover."

I have been using Bing Wallpaper happily for years. Today, for the first time I noticed a hecking ad in place of my wallpaper. Why this level of nickel and diming. This is atrocious UX, its ad over entire screen, For a moment I thought I installed some adware…

I am quite disappointed at how Windows Usability has been going backwards and the program management groups don't drive usability issues.

Tesla is asking fleet buyers to purchase and run Cybercab robotaxis for profit, the same pitch that bankrupted MisterGreen. It does not add up.

An interactive tour of what’s new in PostgreSQL 19: property graph queries, REPACK, plan advice, temporal updates, and more, with short runnable SQL examples you can edit and run in the browser.

In the wake of the recent Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities, it’s worth spending
some time looking at root causes. Both of these vulnerabilities involved processors
speculatively executing instructions past some kind of access check and allowing the
...

The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals dismissed a lawsuit from Mississippi residents related to lead-contaminated water.

$12,431 in fake invoices, 2,797 spam emails, $0 revenue.

Every building standing in the City of Los Angeles today, one box per structure, appearing in the year it was built. The surviving city, 1880 to now.

Tesla killed its Solar Roof and told certified installers it will ship only panels. Contractors tell Electrek they sank six figures into the program.

Can automation harm workers without replacing them? We study jobs in which workers value both producing useful output and knowing that the output depends on their own contribution. A credible machine alternative can weaken that second source of meaning even…

A short list of articles that temper my enthusiasm around AI, and drawing a
few lines in the sand along the way.

German police discovered multiple suspected launch devices positioned near a high-voltage power line close to the Weisweiler power plant in North.

If you’ve never seen a bad production of Macbeth, you’ve probably never seen a production of Macbeth. Famously cursed, the play has inspired perhaps the gravest superstition in the superstitious…

Three weeks before the German state of Sachsen-Anhalt went to the polls to elect a new legislature on September 6, Germany’s leading news magazine, Der Spiegel, ran a cover story...

How and why I went from AI optimist to AI doomer.

A Tesla Model 3 ran a stop sign in Buena Vista, NJ and killed 82-year-old Stephen Field. Tesla's own data confirms its driver-assist was engaged.